Local Services

Many local businesses do a great job in providing all sorts of services for the village and listed below you’ll find some links or contact details for those who service the village.

Alveston Youth Hostel

A Grade II listed Georgian mansion house with its own bar, dining room, sitting room, library, 30 bedrooms and a large free car park. Prices from £13.95 per person per night, or £40.95 per room B&B. Click onto their website from the Home Page links.

John Rimmer – the Grimsby Fishman in a van

John arrives in Avonfields Close between 8.30 am and 8.45 am on Friday mornings. He then stays in village for half an hour – moving on from Avonfields Close to Ferry Lane, past pub, left down Poplar Terrace to stop outside Woodlands. Then past the Malthouse and up Alveston Lane where he stops again.

Next stop after Alveston is Hunscote Farm Shop where he stays for an hour between 10.00 am and 11.00 am.

If you have any queries or wish a special delivery to your door please feel free to call him on 07930 273851.

Newspaper Delivery

The Spar Shop and Post Office, Tiddington. Tel: 292362

Mobile Library

Visits the village on a Wednesday every three weeks from 11.40 to 12..00.

Full details are available from Warwickshire County Council’s website:

Free Bus Service to Tescos

Johnsons run a Free Bus Service to Tescos on a Monday morning . It leaves the bus shelter in the middle of the village ( opp Ferry Lane ) at 11.17am and returns at 1.30 pm from Tescos , arriving back in Alveston at 1.43pm.

Alveston Village Association Angling Club

35 fishermen currently belong to AVAAC and the fees are £20 / year to join – reduced to £12 for the over 65’s and under 14’s.All fishermen are required to have a rod licence.